An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
IMMANUEL KANTWar seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
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How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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